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SUMMARY:Russia And The Arab World: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:CHICAGO\, IL\n\nRussia has been deeply entangled with the Arab 
 world since the 19th century\, but it is only recently that scholars have 
 begun to examine these connections seriously. Three veteran scholars who h
 ave edited a source book together on the topic—Russian-Arab Worlds: A Do
 cumentary History (Routledge\, 2023)—will join forces to think together
  about the state of the field\, potential sources and directions for futur
 e research\, and to contemplate how the past relates to current events in 
 Israel/Palestine and Syria. This event should be helpful for students seek
 ing to conduct research in the region\, but it is also designed to be acce
 ssible for general audiences curious about what is happening in the Arab w
 orld today and why. The conversation will be followed by a reception.\n\nI
 f you cannot attend in person\, you may register to watch this event on Z
 oom.\n\nSponsored by CEERES\, CMES\, and the Department of Middle Eastern 
 Studies\n\nModerated by Orit Bashkin (Department of Middle Eastern Studi
 es)\n\nEileen Kane is Professor of History at Connecticut College\, where
  she teaches courses on modern Europe and the Middle East. She is the auth
 or of Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (2015). She is no
 w writing a book about emigration from Russia/USSR to the Middle East.\n\n
 Masha Kirasirova is an Assistant Professor of History at New York Univers
 ity Abu Dhabi and the author of The Eastern International: Arabs\, Centra
 l Asians\, and Jews in the Soviet Union’s Anticolonial Empire (Oxford U
 niversity Press\, 2024). She is also a co-editor of The Routledge Handboo
 k of the Global Sixties Between Protest and Nation-Building (Routledge Pr
 ess\, 2018). Her work broadly explores exchanges between Soviet Eurasia an
 d the Middle East\, focusing on state-led efforts to transform the natural
  environment and political culture during the Cold War. She is also intere
 sted in visual cultures of development in the Middle East\, Soviet and Ara
 b films\, theories of empire\, and histories of the future.\n\nMargaret Li
 tvin is associate professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Bosto
 n University. A historian of transregional cultural flows\, she is the aut
 hor of Hamlet’s Arab Journey: Shakespeare’s Prince and Nasser’s Gho
 st (2011) and is writing a book titled Red Mecca: The Life and Afterlive
 s of the Arab-Soviet Romance. Her research has been recognized with Mellon
 \, ACLS Burkhardt\, Humboldt\, and Radcliffe fellowships\, and she has bee
 n awarded a 2023 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant to translate a Syrian civ
 il war novel featuring a giraffe.
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